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believe, on the shortest notice, and most reasonable terms. And who should he happen to encoun- ter there but his old sweet-heart and her new helpmate, bound on the same joyous errand, and both apparently in high glee that they had got the start of him by a few minutes. Our hero, However, was not long behind them; the mar- rying magistrate got another fee, and the parties (the AMENDE HONORABLE was afterwards               made to the kirk-session) are now tied as hard and fast as the laws of the land and church can find them.

28. METHOD OF TEACHING MUSIC---A Highland piper having a pupil to teach, dis- dained to rack his brains with the names of               semibreves, minims, crotchets, and quavers. "Here, Donald lad, gie's a blast! So, so,--               'era weel blawi), man; but what's SOUND,                Donald lad, without SENSE? Ye may blaw,                an blaw for aye, without maken a tune o't, gin                I dinna tell ye how the queer thing on the paper                maun help ye. Ye see that big fallow wi' a                sound open face;"--pointing to a semibreve,                between the two lines of a bar--“ He moves                slowly frae that line to this, whiles ye beat ane                wi yere fit, an gie lang loud blast. Gin ye's                fit a fit till him, ye make twa of him, and he'll                muve twice as fast. Gin ye black his face, he'll                rin four times faster than the fallow wi' the                white face; but gin, after blacking his face,                we'll bend his knee, or tie his legs, he'll hop                eight times faster than yon chap I showed you